"Let us not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it."
Tropes about emotions in general. (For specific emotions, see the specific indexes.)
Compare and contrast Logic Tropes. Also see Body Language.
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- Affection-Hating Kid: Expressions of affection (hugs, kisses, etc) are hated by kids.
- Bad Mood Retreat: A special place a character goes to when unhappy.
- Blue Is Calm
- Close to Home
- Cold Ham: A character who doesn't speak dramatically, but still has dialogue that is hammy.
- Colour-Coded Emotions
- Crossing the Burnt Bridge
- Cry for the Devil: All of a sudden, a character previously thought to be utterly beyond any sympathy reveals past traumas that may open the waterworks.
- Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment
- Emotion Control: A form of mind control that is focused on manipulating someone's emotional state.
- Emotion Bomb: A magic spell or psychological weapon that can force people to feel certain emotions.
- Hate Plague: Something that forces people to feel enraged, hateful, and even violently aggressive towards other people.
- Love Potion: Something that forces people to feel romantic affection or sexual attraction towards other people they would normally not be interested in.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Something that forces people to feel frightened, often by making them hallucinate their own worst nightmares.
- Emotion Eater: A being or creature which derives power from the emotional state of other people, usually by exploiting their negative emotions or draining their positive emotions.
- Emotionless Reptile: Reptiles portrayed as cold, stoic or unempathetic.
- Emotion Suppression
- Emotional Bruiser
- Emotional Powers
- Emotionless Girl
- Emotions vs. Stoicism
- The Empath
- Faint in Shock: The emotions (positive or negative) just got to be too much.
- First Time Feeling
- Frozen Face
- Group Hug
- Gut Feeling
- Headdesk
- High-Pressure Emotion
- Hot-Blooded
- Ice Queen
- Immune To Jumpscares: When jump scares fail In-Universe and in Real Life.
- Inhuman Emotion
- In-Universe Catharsis
- Lack of Empathy: Not giving a shit about other people's feelings or suffering.
- Living Mood Ring: When a character's appearance changes to reflect their emotions.
- Loss of Inhibitions
- Luminescent Blush
- The McCoy
- Mellow Fellow: A peaceful and generally relaxed person.
- A Million is a Statistic: Caring more about the specific people that died than the high numbers of unidentified casualties.
- The Misophonic: Misophonia, or 'sound rage', creates feelings of intense, sometimes even violent anger in those who experience it.
- Mood-Swinger: Someone changes emotions at the drop of a hat.
- Nerves of Steel
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat
- Passion Is Evil
- Percussive Therapy
- Personality Chip
- Quivering Eyes
- Rule of Empathy
- Safety in Indifference
- Sensitive Artist
- Serendipity Shock
- Shameful Shrinking
- Song of Many Emotions
- Songs of Solace
- Soulful Plant Story: A plot or scene focusing on a plant that's deeply emotional.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside
- The Spock
- Straw Vulcan
- Strawman Emotional
- Sunny Sunflower Disposition: A character whose personality and emotions are just as bright as the golden flowers they surround themselves with.
- Surprisingly Moving Song: A character has a profound emotional reaction to a piece of music.
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Sympathy for the Hero
- The Tell
- That Makes Me Feel Angry: A character states out loud the emotion they are feeling.
- Throwing Out the Script
- Tin Man: A character claims to lack emotion but is clearly demonstrating emotion.
- Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: Someone loses their appetite because they're scared, sad, or angry.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: An unfortunate outcome befalls a character because they acted on their emotions without considering the ramifications of their actions.
- Tsundere
- Unbalanced By Rival's Kid
- Unstable Powered Child: A powerful child is dangerous because their immaturity and inability to cope with their emotions and/or power make them unstable with the power.
- Unstable Powered Woman: A powerful woman is dangerous because her emotions contribute to her unpredictability.
- What Is This Feeling?
